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experiences of women managers/directors in senior positions within a variety of organizations. All of these papers demonstrate … that despite their economic empowerment, these women are still strongly connected to the domestic realm through their … authors comment on how contemporary notions of merit and choice individualise women's experience within organisations …
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harmony. Design/methodology/approach – The author gives a close reading of four black women's interview-based narratives to … positions. Moreover, a reading of these women's accounts suggests that affect is both personal and social and can manifest in … implications – In South Africa where black women constitute the numerical majority, there is an urgent need to understand and …
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variance, and regression analyses were used to highlight the biases that were discovered. Females believed that other women are … essential. Originality/value – The findings lend credence to strong but seldom discussed anecdotal undercurrents of women …'s unwillingness to work for other women. Although female managers have been studied to a limited degree, there has been no empirical …
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results of the research indicated joint significant influence of job characteristics and organizational justice in women … influence on the dependent variables for women in both acquired and merged banks. Research limitations/implications – Use of …, systematic and constructively in ways perceived by women to be fair, organizations will remain far from realizing the benefits of …
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a gendered concept through a consideration of women sex‐workers. Specifically, the paper analyses how far women sex … types of sex‐work in relation to agency, gender and the body. Findings – The paper acknowledges the diversity of women …‐work, but also in the context of women's work more broadly. Practical implications – Through the idea of agency as a gendered …
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‐depth interviews with women in an international consulting firm. The analysis was conducted using Nvivo software. Findings – The paper … shows that contrary to the contentions of preference theory, work‐centred women do not face unfettered choice in their … the presence of structural constraints which impact on women's career choices. Further research to develop these themes …
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, professional, and mostly White women in America. What can be learned about employees of color, of lower socioeconomic levels, and … across different groups of women and questions current organizational responses. Originality/value – The paper expands the … understanding of social sustainability to include an organization's human resources by examining the use of FWAs for diverse women …
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Purpose – This study aims to foster work-family balance goals by evaluating the utility of two types of video-based realistic job previews on creating accurate expectations among future academics. Design/methodology/approach – The first realistic job preview divulged information specific to...
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Purpose An international archival data set resulting from a survey of workers in 27 countries is studied, examining certain individual factors affecting family-friendly work perceptions (FFWP) beginning within the USA and, then, studying FFWP across a select group of six countries, specifically...
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Purpose This paper aims to analyse the magnitude of the gender wage disparity in the public and private sectors in Mauritius across both mean differentials and overall wage distribution. The paper then decomposed the gender wage differential using the Oaxaca and Blinder (1973) decomposition...
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